Best Thomas Merton Thoughts
- Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied,… Contrary
- If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we… Across
- When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that… All
- The gate of heaven is everywhere. Everywhere
- By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders,… Aerial
- I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. Believe
- As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows himself… Cannot Know
- Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the… Abundant
- A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass Ass
- The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is… Already One
- A faith that is afraid of other people is not faith at all. Afraid
- It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who… Enemy
- The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the… All
- Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. Demand
- Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are. Act
- We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. Compassion
- To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law… All
- The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love. Awareness
- The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart… All
- The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around. Allowed
- Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves. Capacity
- God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You! Blindness
- To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be… Able
- How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? Arrive
- We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything… Able
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